... (SaaS), RESTful API and Smartphone apps. Route4Me was the first route optimization company to release native iOS and Android apps simultaneously and reach over 1 million downloads. The apps are consistently ...

Cloud-based applications continue to make inroads in the supply chain. Will WMS be the next system to make the transition?According to Dinesh Dongre on the Supply Chain Digest site, the obstacles have ...

Spend Matters is running a great series on the eternal 'ERP vs. Best-of-Breed' question. The first installment by Taras Berezowsky lays out the issue and how they'll approach it.Although it has supposedly ...

Are you getting everything you expect from your cloud applications? Is performance up to standards and, more importantly, are you receiving the financial results you signed up for?In a Spend Matters article, ...

There's a revolution in procurement based on digital technology on the way, according to Stefan Dent on Spend Matters' site. Although the tech has been around for awhile, cloud-based solutions will quicken ...

In the latest chapter of the 'when is EDI going away' saga, Jeff McCandless makes a case for replacing it with APIs. According to his article on the EBN site, supply chains that continue to depend on EDI ...

Supply chain technology is headed for the cloud, or is it? Doug Gilmore predicted it a couple years ago and wanted to assess its status, so Supply Chain Digest did a survey on the topic.Turns out the momentum ...

... (3PL), and others that are not integrated can add to the problems. Software and SaaS/Cloud systems make it easy for companies to get started with any or all these systems. But connecting them can be ...

... or in use via SaaS. When the right combination of systems is in use, each connects to the other and passes informtation. The field of software integration has been an active one as companies install systems ...

To say that software is moving to the cloud would be like coming late to the party. Yes, there is still software on your desktop machines and on your servers. But even the most ardent and heavyweight applications ...

What are our collective perceptions of SaaS, Cloud computing, and Hosted solutions. Of course we are mainly interested in supply chain solutions, but the definitions appliy to any application. If you'r ...

One overlooked benefit of utilizing cloud-based procurement systems is the flexibility they provide to make a quick change to a better provider. Improved functionality and lower costs can result.On the ...

The ERP continues to evolve. CFO magazine recently interviewed a prominent consultant to identify trends that executives should be aware of in this key technology.The cloud is a huge game changer, but ...

Confusion reigns over whether hosted or software as a service (SaaS) is the better choice for that next software overhaul. It doesn't help that so many hosted vendors are touting their wares as SaaS o ...

Some time ago we sent out a survey asking about your perceptions of SaaS, Cloud computing, and Hosted solutions. Of course we were interested in EDI solutions, but the question is a generic one that applies ...

When someone mentions 'the cloud', what are they actually talking about? To an IT architect, it's one thing, to a user another, and a vendor may have an entirely different description altogether.In the ...

... other options, whether that’s running EDI in-house, outsourcing it all to a managed service provider, or leveraging a SaaS-based EDI solution.
Perhaps the data most challenging to come by is related ...